The New Hampshire legislature just passed a bicycle safety law, effective January 1, which amoung other items, creates a 'three foot safety space rule' in that motor vehicles shall not come closer than three feet to a bicycle as both car and bike share the same road.
Why not extend the thinking for bicycling on New Hampshire roads to the WOW trail, and simply require the distance between the WOW bicycle path and railroad tracks to be a minimum determined distance. It could be greater than three feet, such as five or eight or ten feet.
If a three feet safety space is an ok compromise for cars and bicycles, then lets apply the same thinking to this "ugly fence' problem and simply build it without a fence excepting areas where a fence is recommended.
Possibly, a granite cobblestone "fence' would be viewed as an attractive border and abutters could view it as an enhancement and not an ugly fence.
As the Old Man of the Mountain used to say: "granite is naturally good looking," plus a cobblestone is all of just 6 inches high so it will not mess with the view.
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